Nothing like ending the week with a 9 week party with two of your four team members not there. Little chaotic, but we all survied haha! This week ending marked the end of the 1st 9 weeks. I can hardly believe that I already have already completed 9 weeks. It seems just like yesterday that I was sitting in my First Year Teacher meetings.
I feel like the past 9 weeks have been a success. A whole lot has happened in such a short period of time. There have been times where I have been super stressed, but I would say for the most part that everything has been pretty good. I have made it a point to do exciting things for the kids in class. I feel like that most of them are enjoying math (as much as a 4th grader can). I have learned that there are times that you are going to have to adjust on the fly, but everything is a learning experience thus far. There are things that I have really enjoyed doing that I will definitely do again, but there are definitely things that I am going to have to change next time around.
This week coming up is packed full of stuff. It is Red Ribbon Week which
means a different dress up day throughout the week. There is Fall Ball
Frenzy where the teachers are playing the parents in a softball game.
That is going to be crazy fun. There is also the Marquette Family Dance
on Friday. I have two practices during the week that I have to go to. Oh
and not to mention... It's conference week. I have to meet with all of
my homeroom kiddos parents. I am super nervous about that. I can talk to
kids all day, but give me their parents and boom I'm deer in
headlights. I just gotta relax, and take it one parent at a time. It's
going to be a busy week, but I'll get through it and do the best that I
can at everything that I do.
The first 9 weeks has flown by, and it is safe to say that I love my job. I love the kids, the people I work with, and my school. All of us put together really make of The Greatest Show on Earth. You would be hard pressed to find a school that is more passionate and enthusiastic about it's students having a great learning experience.
Sunday, October 25, 2015
Sunday, October 11, 2015
Take PRIDE in Your School
It's been a couple weeks since I've blogged. There really hasn't been too much to blog about prior to this past week. The unit we're currently working on is Adding & Subtracting Whole Numbers & Decimals. I feel like the kids are getting the concept, and so I wanted to do something that was kind of fun.
Everyone loves money and eating, so I created what I call the Menu Project. The kids are responsible for creating their own menu with the food items that they want. They have to price the items, but they have to include decimals. The cool part is that they are actually making their menus with pictures and everything. Once the menus are made, then the kids will "dine" at other groups' restaurants. Groups will come to your restaurant, and the kids are responsible for calculating the total cost of the bill. They also have to calculate how much change they owe their "customers". So, the kids are still practicing working with decimals, but this way its more exciting and relevant to them. They were so excited when I told them they got to choose whatever food they wanted for their menu.
It was really cool to see the menus the kids came up with. One group did a Rangers themed menu, and all their items were named after actual Ranger's players. The creativity behind that is awesome. Some groups have amazing drawings in their menus, so it was very cool to see the artistic ability of some of my kiddos. When they finish their menus, they all run up to me and are so eager to show me their menus. They were all extremely proud of what they had come up with. This upcoming week we will "eat" at the restaurants, and I am very curious to see how it goes with the kids behavior and their ability to work with decimals.
A fun thing that happened this week was on Thursday during Adopt an Athlete. JM comes on overhead and says you have 15 minutes to find whatever you can to dress your teacher up as a clown. My first thought is, I have no clown stuff in my class. Well that didn't stop my kids. She said go, and they all took off. Everyone is running around and throwing things at me left and right to put on. With the lack of clown stuff, I was pretty impressed with what the kids came up with. All the teachers headed to the cafeteria where we are shown off to the whole school. She shows off each teacher one by one, and I was pretty happy with the cheers that I got. My class represented well. I ended up winning the competition (didn't really deserve too...) and my kids won a popcorn party. It is just really cool that I work at a school that loves to do such exciting things, but everyone is back to work as soon as it ends. We definitely work hard to play hard at McA. I definitely take pride in my school, and I love working there!
Everyone loves money and eating, so I created what I call the Menu Project. The kids are responsible for creating their own menu with the food items that they want. They have to price the items, but they have to include decimals. The cool part is that they are actually making their menus with pictures and everything. Once the menus are made, then the kids will "dine" at other groups' restaurants. Groups will come to your restaurant, and the kids are responsible for calculating the total cost of the bill. They also have to calculate how much change they owe their "customers". So, the kids are still practicing working with decimals, but this way its more exciting and relevant to them. They were so excited when I told them they got to choose whatever food they wanted for their menu.
It was really cool to see the menus the kids came up with. One group did a Rangers themed menu, and all their items were named after actual Ranger's players. The creativity behind that is awesome. Some groups have amazing drawings in their menus, so it was very cool to see the artistic ability of some of my kiddos. When they finish their menus, they all run up to me and are so eager to show me their menus. They were all extremely proud of what they had come up with. This upcoming week we will "eat" at the restaurants, and I am very curious to see how it goes with the kids behavior and their ability to work with decimals.
A fun thing that happened this week was on Thursday during Adopt an Athlete. JM comes on overhead and says you have 15 minutes to find whatever you can to dress your teacher up as a clown. My first thought is, I have no clown stuff in my class. Well that didn't stop my kids. She said go, and they all took off. Everyone is running around and throwing things at me left and right to put on. With the lack of clown stuff, I was pretty impressed with what the kids came up with. All the teachers headed to the cafeteria where we are shown off to the whole school. She shows off each teacher one by one, and I was pretty happy with the cheers that I got. My class represented well. I ended up winning the competition (didn't really deserve too...) and my kids won a popcorn party. It is just really cool that I work at a school that loves to do such exciting things, but everyone is back to work as soon as it ends. We definitely work hard to play hard at McA. I definitely take pride in my school, and I love working there!
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